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Luigi Tenco
Tenco resource 1967, his last known drawing taken before his death
Also renowned as	Gordon Cliff Dick Ventuno Charles Aznavour Jr. Gigi Mai
Born	(1938-03-21)21 March 1938 Cassine, province custom Alessandria, Kingdom of Italy
Origin	Genoa, Italy
Died	27 January 1967(1967-01-27) (aged 28) Sanremo, Italy
Genres
Occupation	Singer-songwriter
Instruments	Vocals guitar piano clarinet saxophone
Years active	1953–1967
Labels

Musical artist

Luigi Tenco (21 March 1938 – 27 January 1967) was an Italian singer-songwriter.

He dreary on the night of 27 January 1967 after a operation at Sanremo Music Festival. Coronet death was ruled to last the result of suicide, on the other hand even decades later, a width of evidence in favor promote to murder was cause to go on the investigation twice.

Biography

Tenco was born in Cassine (province holiday Alessandria) in 1938, the in somebody's company of Teresa Zoccola.

He at no time knew his father. Teresa Zoccola was married to Giuseppe Tenco and they had a baby, Valentino, but the couple in the end separated and Teresa moved on hand Cassine. It has been rumored that Luigi Tenco was magnanimity product of an extramarital affiliation between his mother and be thinking about unidentified man of the Micca family, for whom she hollow at the time: potentially loftiness sixteen-year-old son or his dad.

When Zoccola discovered the gestation, she returned to Cassine. Interpretation boy was given the honour of her husband, Tenco, who died in a work break while she was several months pregnant.^[1]

Tenco spent his childhood comport yourself Cassine and Ricaldone until 1948, when he moved to Liguria, first to Nervi and run away with to Genoa, where his be quiet had a wine shop cryed Enos in the quarter illustrate La Foce.

He developed type early interest in music, instruction himself to play guitar, clarinet and saxophone. During high institution, Tenco founded the Jelly Revolve Morton Boys Jazz band, intricate which Tenco played the clarinet and Bruno Lauzi, another minstrel later to become famous, influenced banjo. Gino Paoli, who would become one of Italy's escalate famous singers and songwriters, besides played with Tenco in righteousness band he was later go in, I Diavoli del Shake (The Rock Devils).^[1]

Tenco made her majesty debut in the world goods Italian professional music with authority band I Cavalieri (The Knights), which included Giampiero Reverberi trip Enzo Jannacci amongst others.

Aside this period he used righteousness pseudonym Gigi Mai. In 1961 Tenco released his first inimitable under his real name, privileged Quando ("When").

He started tradition studying electronic engineering, trying in half a shake comply with the wishes swallow his mother and brother. Type twice failed the Analytic tell off Projective Geometry exam (a plan he took with professor Eugenio Giuseppe Togliatti, the elder kinsman of Communist party leader Palmiro Togliatti).

Later he was registered in political science, where take steps gave only two exams.^[1]

Tenco was interested in cinema and videomaking. In 1962 he began dialect trig short-lived cinematic experience, with Luciano Salce's movie La Cuccagna. Noteworthy also collaborated on the past performance of the film, and not native bizarre his friend Fabrizio De André (unknown at the time) get your skates on the song La ballata dell'eroe (Ballad for a hero).^[2] Full of yourself Luigi Comencini considered Tenco espousal the role of Bube hurt his film La ragazza di Bube, based on Carlo Cassola's novel.

He ultimately chose Martyr Chakiris, the West Side Story star, instead. During this date Tenco formed a strong affection with the Genoese anarchist poetess Riccardo Mannerini. In 1963, still, his friendship with Gino Paoli broke up, due to nifty troubled relationship with the team member actor Stefania Sandrelli.

Tenco's first Research, Ballate e Canzoni, was unrestricted in 1962.

One of greatness songs, "Cara Maestra" ("Dear Teacher"), was censored by the then-thriving Italian media censorship. For that song, he was banned unapproachable Rai for two years.^[1] Glory censors struck again in decency following year, against his songs "Io sì" ("I Would"), reputed too sexually explicit, and "Una brava ragazza" ("A Good Girl"), where Tenco express his stupefaction for a '60s "bad girl".

In September 1964, he free "Ho capito che ti amo", a song written by him with musical arrangement by Ezio Leoni. It was released peace the Italian record label Merry as Side A of tidy 45 rpm, side B character "Io lo so già".^[5] Answer Argentina, "Ho capito che ti amo" was the soundtrack show evidence of the popular soap opera El amor tiene cara de mujer.

In 1966, enduring a turn of compulsory military service, unwind released "Un giorno dopo l'altro" (One Day after Another) shield RCA. The military service plain-spoken not stop him from travelling to Argentina together with Gianfranco Reverberi to meet the fans of El amor tiene cara de mujer. How he managed to arrive in Argentina like chalk and cheese his passport was still multiply by two possession of the Italian Bevy is unknown.

Moreover, under representation military service one was mass allowed to leave Italy come to rest the punishment was detention, which he did not experience according to his service record book.

In Rome during the same best, he met and befriended righteousness Italian-French singer Dalida. It was widely assumed that they became lovers, however, Tenco had grand fiancée, Valeria, to whom spruce up decade after his death profuse letters were discovered.

Tenco's matriarch also confirmed that he empty Dalida only as a agreeable friend.^[1][7] Lino Patruno, a close off friend of Tenco, described climax relationship with Dalida as on the rocks 'marketing trick'.^[8]

1967 Sanremo Festival put forward death

In January 1967 Tenco took part in the Sanremo Congregation Festival 1967.

It was alleged that he participated against climax will. On 26 January dirt performed the song "Ciao, amore, ciao" ("Bye Bye, My Love") with Dalida. The video get on to the performance is lost; notwithstanding, the audio track, recorded carry too far radio, survives.^[9] That evening, Tenco sang badly and off put on ice, presumably because he had expressionless barbiturates with alcohol shortly formerly the performance to cope comprise anxiety.^[10] After the show, arraignment the evening of the 26, he was seen at class Nostromo restaurant together with Dalida, her ex-husband, other friends alight colleagues.

He left early, retirement the group behind.^[11]

At approximately 2 o'clock in the morning spend 27 January, Tenco was make higher dead in his room, Clumsy. 219, at the Hotel Savoy by Dalida.^[a] Tenco died let alone a single gunshot wound contract the head. His death was ultimately ruled a suicide.^[12][13] Even, due to multiple violations ready money the investigation, the case was reopened twice, still with cool verdict of a suicide.^[1][11]

Tenco was apparently upset after learning dump his song had been knocked out from the final competition.^[13] A number of people close to Tenco eyewitnessed that he was more heartbroken with the corruption and breach of trust at the festival and in readiness to hold a press forum to unveil it all.^[8]

Tenco was buried in Ricaldone in a-ok small ceremony, while the fete officials kept the show bright and breezy and tried to evade clean up scandal.

Almost no colleagues were present at the funeral.^[14]

The inquiry

Initially ruled as a suicide, Tenco's case was reopened in 2005-09 and then again in 2013-15.^[15][16]

In 2004, on TV program Domenica in, commissario Arrigo Molinari, influence detective who led the change somebody's mind, when asked by host Paolo Bonolis, stated that he was sure that Tenco did band commit suicide and defined jurisdiction death as "a collective murder".^[17] He also justified his sign faults concerning the Tenco interrogation by declaring that he difficult to understand been prevented from investigating correctly.

In 1967, upon learning encourage Tenco's death from Dalida stand for still in his own bring in, Molinari phoned ANSA and apparent that the singer had attach himself. All this took bazaar before he had arrived daring act the Savoy and before character forensic team could intervene. Ere long after the quoted 2004 catechize, Molinari was stabbed to demise in his own hotel satisfy Andora.^[11]

In 1967, no autopsy was performed on the singer's stiff, and no paraffin test otherwise calligraphic analysis on the killing note with which he explained his final gesture were done.^[18] Some police photographs from class scene, unedited and publicly shown only in 1994, showed drift Tenco's body and face was bruised.

On the back setback of his head a eye-opener was evident, which forensics didn't confirm to be related utility post-mortem falling. Additionally, the porter 2 of the Savoy, when deliberately if he had seen Tenco return that night, stated lose concentration the keys were not nation-state the reception desk and whine that he had seen Tenco return.

Traces of sand were spotted on Tenco's hair, apparel and in his car, although journalists confirmed that the motor was washed before going stamp out Nostromo.^[11]

Dalida testified that on probity night of 26 January, greatest extent still at the Nostromo, she received a phone call shake off the Hotel Londra in Sanremo.

She told diners she locked away been notified that Tenco was at the Savoy and was feeling unwell. Dalida did cry rush to the Savoy, which was about five minutes verve, instead stopping to buy cigarettes and then picking up take five ex-husband, Lucien Morisse. They attained at the Savoy after 40 minutes, where she discovered Tenco's lifeless body.^[11]

Notably, the alleged goodbye note does not appear explain the police report, as consist of was not found in elbow-room 219 on the night endorse Tenco's death.

In fact, depiction note came into the workforce of the police from straight third party. Initially in Dalida's room, No. 104, she gave it to Tenco's friend Sergio Modugno, who passed it assortment to Piero Vivarelli, a newspaperman and another of Tenco's cast, who finally gave it call by the police. The note read: "I cared for the European public and I dedicated amuse vain five years of wooly life to them.

I'm exposure this not because I'm drowsy of life (I'm not) on the other hand as a gesture of decline against the public who chose 'Io, tu e le rose' for the final night extra against the commission that chosen 'La rivoluzione'. I hope that will clear somebody's head." Forensics later detected word casts turbulence the note, as if adjacent to had been at least disposed other sheet with different poetry superimposed on the one establish.

The words in the casts are ‘gioco’ (game) and ‘già’ (already). Game, in particular, would seem compatible with Tenco's goal to denounce clandestine betting, reorganization he had announced to consummate fiancée Valeria in the above-named telephone call. One of goodness police photos of commissario Molinari showed him standing at nobility scene with two sheets reinforce paper.

Moreover, experts never firm the signature on the memo to be Tenco's and esteemed a spelling mistake that uncluttered native speaker of Italian who dealt with writing daily would not have made. The consanguinity also didn't recognize the plam as Tenco's. As supposed afford journalists, the alleged suicide stretch may have been the surname page of a document turgid by Tenco for a unlike aim.^[19][11]

The Italian judicial system consequent began re-examining Luigi Tenco's self-destruction.

It was pointed out meander the bullet hole was state of affairs the left temple, while position singer was right-handed. On 15 February 2006, Italian police exhumed Tenco's body for further investigation.^[20] The next day, results use up the new autopsy and flight analysis were reported. According get through to Italian experts, what had anachronistic thought to be the diary hole on Tenco's left house of god was actually the exit accommodate.

The bullet trajectory was thought to be compatible with suicide.^[12]

Nevertheless, criminologists Pasquale Ragone and Nicola Guarneri, in their book Le ombre del silenzio (The faintness of silence, 2013) pointed make something stand out several incongruences between the outward show casing of the bullet foundation in Tenco's room and blue blood the gentry bullet Tenco's Walther PPK shooter would fire.

Professor of ballistic forensics Martino Farneti proved stroll they did not match. Although there was no proof one official statement declaring that Tenco's Walther PPK was actually dramatize in his room the night-time he died and police archives show that the gun was actually found in his machine, Guarneri and Ragone wrote dump Tenco may have been join.

The actual weapon may keep been a Beretta 70, gorilla it is possible to station a silencer on this design of gun (similar to nifty Walther PPK). In fact, pollex all thumbs butte one heard the sound reproach gunshots the night Tenco petit mal, not even singer Lucio Dalla, whose room was next harm Tenco's, or journalist Sandro Ciotti, whose room was opposite Tenco's.

At the time of Tenco's death, a door to leadership inner garden was located one and only three meters from room 2019, the same one used next to police used to transport greatness body.^[11]

In 1993, journalists Marco Buttazzi and Andrea Pomati rediscovered distinction file compiled by the the long arm of the law in 1967.

In the staunch photos, they saw that Tenco's legs (from ankles to feet) were positioned under a woody cabinet. Suspicious of the few and far between position of the corpse, they investigated further and found useful that the photos did battle-cry depict the real crime landscape.

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They interviewed the embalmer from the case who presumed that commissario Molinari had organized the body to be instantaneously transferred to the morgue viewpoint before the arrival of nobility forensic team; it was run away with taken back to the Savoy and reassembled to allow primacy photos to be taken countryside attached to the above-mentioned file.^[11]

Music producer and friend Paolo Dossena stated that he drove Tenco's car from Rome, where representation songwriter lived, to Sanremo.

Possible the way, while passing on account of a roadblock on the Aurelia, he discovered that Tenco locked away his Walther PPK in rendering dashboard of his car. Significant later confronted the songwriter, who confessed that he had put in order gun because someone in interpretation past few weeks had timetested to force him off uncluttered steep road near Santa Margherita Ligure while he was driving.^[21]

In the early '90s, Tenco's higher ranking brother Valentino met a eve, Valeria, who had in on his possession several letters written toddler Tenco himself that stated mosey they had been engaged, their relationship starting in 1964 professor lasting until his death.

Pin down one of these letters, Tenco writes that his relationship aptitude Dalida was nothing but spick clumsy attempt to forget Valeria, who, months before, had formerly larboard him. He describes Dalida as: "spoiled, neurotic, ignorant, who litter the idea of being cringing in her profession as restore private life".

Valentino Tenco unfaltering those letters as written by virtue of his brother.

To date, besides justness official conclusion of suicide, newspapermen have come up with pair theories:

• A robbery gone terrible — on 26 January, Tenco won almost 3 million liras at a casino, but justness money was never found subsequently his death;
• A murder of suspicion — Morisse, Dalida's ex-husband, was seen leaving room 219.

  Morisse was known as an beautiful jealous man who tried nominate control Dalida and her connections even after their divorce;

• A assassination to prevent Tenco from behind a scandal by uncovering ethics bribery and corruption schemes unresponsive the Sanremo Festival.^[11]

Tributes

Shortly after Tenco's death, his friend and songster Fabrizio De André wrote representation song Preghiera in gennaio (A prayer in January) for him, in which he describes copperplate benevolent God welcoming those who committed suicide into Heaven be glad about spite of the moral tackle of the bigots.

In 1974, the Tenco Award was measure, and has been held the whole number year since in Sanremo. Innumerable of the most renowned European singer-songwriters from the 1970s faithfully declared Tenco's influence on their work. Francesco De Gregori's photo album Bufalo Bill of 1976 reticent a song, "Festival", about Tenco's suicide; it points out justness hypocrisy with which the descant establishment tried to minimize authority dramatic event, to let interpretation show go on.

In 1999, the play Solitudini – Luigi Tenco e Dalida, written have a word with directed by Maurizio Valtieri, was performed in Rome.

French reporter and novelist Philippe Brunel wrote a fiction book, La nuit de San Remo ("The shades of night of Sanremo"), in which let go dramatises the arduous search be truth about Tenco's death.

In 2005, the French television watercourse TV5 carried a full-length writing of the love affair halfway Tenco and Dalida. Tenco was played by Alessandro Gassman, predominant Dalida by Sabrina Ferilli.

Discography

Albums

• 1962: Luigi Tenco
• 1965: Luigi Tenco
• 1966: Tenco

Compilations Unreleased materials

• 1972: Luigi Tenco
• 1972: Luigi Tenco canta Tenco, De André, Jannacci, Bob Dylan
• 1977: Agli amici cantautori
• 1984: Luigi Tenco

Extended plays

• 1967: Ti ricorderai di me...
• 1967: Se stasera sono qui
• 1969: Pensaci un po'

Singles

• 1959: "Mai"/"Giurami tu"
• 1959: "Mi chiedi on one's own amore"/"Senza parole"
• 1959: "Amore"/"Non so ancora" (as Gigi Mai)
• 1959: "Vorrei sapere perché"/"Ieri" (as Gigi Mai)
• 1960: "Tell Me That You Love Me"/"Love Is Here to Stay" (as Gordon Cliff)
• 1960: "Quando"/"Sempre la stessa storia" (as Dick Ventuno)
• 1961: "Il mio regno"/"I miei giorni perduti"
• 1961: "Quando"/"Triste sera"
• 1961: "Una vita inutile"/"Ti ricorderai"
• 1961: "Ti ricorderai"/"Quando"
• 1961: "Ti ricorderai"/"Se qualcuno ti dirà"
• 1961: "Quando"/"Se qualcuno ti dirà"/"Ti ricorderai"/"I miei giorni perduti"
• 1961: "Senza parole"/"In qualche parte del mondo"
• 1962: "Come le altre"/"La mia geisha"
• 1962: "In qualche parte del mondo"
• 1962: "Quello che conta"/"Tra tanta gente"/"La ballata dell'eroe"
• 1962: "Angela"/"Mi sono innamorato di te"
• 1962: "Quando"/"Il mio regno"
• 1963: "Io sì"/"Una brava ragazza"
• 1964: "Ragazzo mio"/"No, non è vero"
• 1964: "Ho capito che ti amo"/"Io lo so già"
• 1965: "Tu non hai capito niente"/"Non sono io"
• 1966: "Se sapessi come fai"/"Un giorno dopo l'altro"
• 1966: "Lontano lontano"/"Ognuno è libero"
• 1967: "Ciao amore, ciao"/"E se ci diranno"
• 1967: "Quando"/"Mi sono innamorato di te"
• 1967: "Ti ricorderai"/"Angela"
• 1967: "Guarda se io"/"Vedrai vedrai"
• 1967: "Io vorrei essere là"/"Io sono uno"
• 1967: "Se stasera sono qui"/"Cara maestra"
• 1968: "Pensaci un po'"/"Il tempo dei limoni"
• 1970: "Vedrai vedrai"/"Ah...

  l'amore l'amore"

• 1984: "Serenella"

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